Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
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The Most Honourable The Marquess of Clanricarde KP PC |
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The Marquess of Clanricarde, 1847.
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| Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard | |
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In office 1 December 1830 – 16 July 1834 |
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| Monarch | William IV |
| Prime Minister | The Earl Grey |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Macclesfield |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Gosford |
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In office 1838–1840 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Durham |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Stuart de Rothesay |
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In office 7 July 1846 – 21 February 1852 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by | The Earl of St Germans |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Hardwicke |
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In office 3 February 1858 – 21 February 1858 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Viscount Palmerston |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Harrowby |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Hardwicke |
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20 December 1802 Belmont, Hampshire |
| Died |
10 April 1874 (aged 71) Stratton Street, Piccadilly, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Tory Whig |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Harriet Canning (1804-1876) |
Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde KP, PC (20 December 1802 – 10 April 1874), styled Lord Dunkellin until 1808 and known as The Earl of Clanricarde between 1808 and 1825, was a British Whig politician.
Born at Belmont, Hampshire, Clanricarde was the son of General John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, 1st Baronet. Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, was his uncle. He succeeded in the earldom in July 1808 at the age of five, on the death of his father. He was educated at Eton.
In 1825, at the age of 24, Clanricarde was created Marquess of Clanricarde in the Peerage of Ireland, a revival of the title which had become extinct on his uncle's death in 1797. The following year he was made Baron Somerhill, of Somerhill in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to a seat in the House of Lords. In January 1826 he was appointed Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (alongside Lord Howard de Walden) by the Earl of Liverpool, a post he held until August of the same year. In 1830 he joined the Whig government of Lord Grey as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords), which he remained until 1834. He was sworn of the Privy Council in December 1830.
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